Legislation would ensure ratepayers could protest a rate change filed with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Washington (February 2, 2016) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today introduced the Fair Ratepayer, Accountability, Transparency and Efficiency Standards (RATES) Act,...
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Senator led charge opposing efforts the lift the ban to export America’s crude oil
Washington (January 28, 2016) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Climate Clearinghouse, released the following statement today after the Senate passed his amendment to the Senate energy bill by a vote of 62-29 that would...
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Washington, DC (January 28, 2016) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Africa and Global Health subcommittee, today sent letters to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and World Health Organization (WHO) asking how each is preparing to deal with the ever-growing spread of the Zika...
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More Than Six in 10 Drug Overdose Deaths Were Caused by Opioids in 2014, Taking 18,893 Lives
(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), and Tim Kaine (D-VA) today urged the Centers for Disease Control...
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As co-author of the ’96 Telecommunications Act, Senator has long championed competition and choice in video programming
Washington (January 27, 2016) – Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler today circulated a proposal to increase choice and innovation in the video box market. The proposal would create a framework...
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Lawmaker calling for immediate reform of FDA approval process for opioid painkillers fueling prescription drug and heroin epidemic
Boston (January 25, 2016) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today announced he has placed a hold on Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner nominee Dr. Robert Califf, calling for immediate...
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Actions would implement key components of Markey Legislation to Reduce Wasting of Natural Gas on Public Lands
Washington (January, 22, 2016) – The Obama Administration announced it will update 30 year old regulations to reduce the amount of natural gas that is wasted through venting and flaring from oil and natural...
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Big polluter legal effort to delay historic Clean Power Plan dealt significant blow
Washington (January 21, 2016) –The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today rejected a stay to block implementation of the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan that was requested by opponents of the plan.
Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass), a...
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More Than 2,000 Union Workers Have Been Locked-Out since August in Ohio, Oregon, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. Brown Will Rally with Steelworkers in Ohio on Friday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), along with U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ed...
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Despite 33,000 deaths a year from gun violence, CDC spends nothing to research health crisis due to 1996 appropriations rider
Washington (January 21, 2016) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today led a group of Democratic Senators and renowned national researchers in calling for immediate funding of a gun violence research agenda at the...
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Senators will reintroduce legislation to increase transparency and earlier reporting of auto defects
Washington (January 15, 2016) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), members of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, released the following statement after automakers and the federal government...
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Interior Department action would implement reforms called for by Senator to protect taxpayers, climate
Washington (January 15, 2016) – After three decades of calling for reform to the broken federal coal program that potentially costs American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass) today applauded the...
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County will be designated a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) by federal government
Washington, DC – Congressman Joe Kennedy III (MA-4), Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Edward J. Markey, and Congressman Bill Keating (MA-9) today announced that Bristol County will be designated as a High Intensity Drug...
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Washington (January 13, 2016) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today celebrated news that General Electric will move its global headquarters to Boston. He released the following statement:
“With the announcement of its new global headquarters in Boston, GE’s new motto should be ‘We Bring Good Things to Mass.’ Since...
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Washington (January 12, 2016) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) issued the following statement after President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address. Senator Markey’s guest at the address was Massachusetts gun violence prevention and opioid addiction recovery leader John Rosenthal. John is co-founder of several of...
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Rosenthal is co-founder of Stop Handgun Violence and Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative
Boston (January 8, 2016) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) will bring Massachusetts gun violence prevention and opioid addiction leader John Rosenthal as his guest to the State of the Union address. John is co-founder of several of...
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Currently, A Republican Appropriations Rider From 1996 Prohibits Federal Funds From Being Used To Conduct Research At The CDC On The Epidemic Of Gun Violence In America; Rider’s Original Author, Former Congressman Jay Dickey, Now States That A Ban On Research Funding Was Not The Intention Of The Law
In New Letter, Senate Democrats Call...
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Senator outlines additional UN and U.S. sanctions that could compel North Korea to halt nuclear weapons development, negotiate with int’l community
Boston (January 8, 2016) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, today called for strong action by the United States and its international...
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“In order to win back the public’s trust in the wake of this fraud, it will be important to ensure that the terms of such a program provide consumers with options in addition to generous compensation.”
“Volkswagen owes it to the public to make sure that robust incentives are in place that will keep polluting cars off...
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Markey Joins 162 members of the Senate and House in urging the Supreme Court to uphold women’s constitutionally protected reproductive freedom in Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Edward J. Markey D-Mass. joined Patty Murray, D-Wash., and...
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